Ramsey Khalifeh رمزي خليفة 🇱🇧
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reporter, transportation @gothamist @wnyc previously @bostonglobe @comatbu | tips: [email protected]
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2015
Excited to share I’m now covering transportation for @wnyc and @gothamist after spending a year on general assignments at the newsroom. I’m thrilled to take on this beat covering the largest transit system in the country, joining the illustrious @s_nessen. Send me your tips!!
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Here’s a mind boggling story about NYC mayors and an error that 2 researchers have stumbled upon. Apparently we’ve missed one guy’s term and the official count is wrong.
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A mayoral miscount has a domino effect across five centuries.
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New York City's "Fan Man" pleaded guilty to his crimes against gravity, but he's planning to form an advocacy group to defend every American's right to fly. The latest in a terrific saga from @ramseykhalifeh
https://t.co/Q2GlR6JS3W
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Johnathan Warren was sentenced to four days of community service for illegally flying his fan-powered paraglider over the city's waterways.
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Mamdani: New Yorkers were the winners in the meeting with Trump Story by @ramseykhalifeh
https://t.co/BC5qiUtRdm via @gothamist
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The meeting between Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump centered on talks about affordability and improving the city.
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NEW: Youth vote surged in New York City. Was it a blip or a paradigm shift? More 📈📊📈 Story by me and Joe Hong https://t.co/8JSdiOEVSv via @gothamist
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Political advisers are wrestling with whether Zohran Mamdani’s success represents a paradigm shift or a moment that can’t be recreated.
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I set out to learn about the making of @ZohranKMamdani’s logo. The reporting took me to a font designer in Brooklyn to a graphic designer in Philly and ultimately to the mayor-elect himself.
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Mamdani and the designers who helped craft the logo and font spoke to Gothamist about how they reflect New York City.
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NEW: The Adams admin has transferred the NYC-owned Elizabeth Street Garden lot to the Parks Dept The maneuver further complicates a plan to build affordable senior housing on the site (which would now require state approval) w @_elkue and @lizkimtweets
https://t.co/iqp88YtzFn
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has vowed to kick out the garden operators and build a long-delayed housing development for formerly homeless seniors on the site.
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Mayor Adams has designated Elizabeth Street Garden as a NYC parks in a bid to thwart Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to fulfill a yearslong pledge to build housing on the city-owned lot. w/ @DavidFBrand
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has vowed to kick out the garden operators and build a long-delayed housing development for formerly homeless seniors on the site.
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I ❤️ this video. From the @wnyc newsroom, @ramseykhalifeh and @ryankailath explain two cultural references in @ZohranKMamdani’s victory speech.
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Zohran Mamdani is New York City's next mayor https://t.co/UNJzu7ai66
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New York City voters elected Mamdani as the first South Asian and the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history.
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Mamdani’s Kensington voters took to the streets to celebrate his win. They chant, “My mayor, your mayor” in Bengali
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If you want a quick break from election coverage (for just a couple mins), @_elkue and I found the man who police said parachuted off the Verrazzano on Sunday. He was actually on a powered paraglider. This is his story:
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The arrest of a daredevil who flew near the Verrazzano Bridge has big implications for the city’s nascent recreational aviation scene.
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More immigrants are getting arrested at their mandatory ICE check-ins, sometimes without warning. Now many are facing a difficult choice: to go or not go? I followed one man in NYC who decided to take the risk. https://t.co/YAadllsjT9
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More and more immigrants are being arrested when they show up for their appointments, attorneys say.
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The worker who fell to his death at the Gateway tunnel site recently worked a 23-hour shift, as construction managers race against the clock to catch up with delays on the project’s schedule, @Gothamist reports
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Jorge Sanchez, 52, was described by his best friend and co-worker as a hard worker and dedicated family man.
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NEW: Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge https://t.co/JiZfUIYwWf via @gothamist
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The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.
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Worker who died at Gateway tunnel site clocked 'crazy hours' before death, colleague says https://t.co/tp1GBVkqZh
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Jorge Sanchez, 52, was described by his best friend and co-worker as a hard worker and dedicated family man.
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The mayor and @andrewcuomo often blame @ZohranKMamdani and his supporters for “divisiveness” but the mayor says this:
In endorsement of @andrewcuomo, @ericadamsfornyc, picks up Islamaphobic dog whistle and blows it: "New York cant be Europe, you see what is happening in other countries because of Islamic extremism, not Muslims. Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria."
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Follows reporting from last month about the enforcement and confirms, through documents obtained from a Freedom of Information request, the scale of the operation.
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State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
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Latest w/@arya_sundaram on a man caught up in Amtrak’s Penn station cruising crackdown this summer, and facing deportation.
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Isrrael, an asylum-seeker who asked that only his middle name be published, has been in ICE custody for three months after being arrested and charged with public lewdness in a Penn Station bathroom....
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More than two dozen federal law enforcement officials descended on Canal Street in Chinatown on Tuesday afternoon, detaining at least four people as part of an apparent raid that later escalated into street clashes with bystanders. https://t.co/4yEXPNspF2
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